Today's poem came from a trip to a park with KFP. I wanted to go to a quieter park, but he had his heart set on a place with a sand pit. That was probably actually better for my poem.

23. "T" is for "Transcendentalism." (Write a poem inspired by nature that gets contemplative or deep.)

In Candy Corner, Narbeth Playground

With steady hands, my son filterscrushed dry leaves from tan sandwith a sieve. He dragsa blue rake to form roads. This fenced-in space, filled with yellow grainsand spindly oaks, becomes an oceanto a barefoot girl in a pink sweater. To my son,a mining road for his loader anddump truck. Either way -- mining for sticksor carrying buckets of sand-shells -- we need this place.